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Honoring some familiar Baylor faces retiring this spring
Every spring, the Baylor Family bids happy retirement to professors and staff who have dedicated their lives to the university and its students. It’s always a bittersweet mix — sadness in seeing them...
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Three Baylor profs featured on C-SPAN’s “American History TV” series
Over the past 18 months, history buffs nationwide have had the opportunity to hear free lectures from not one, but three Baylor history professors — thanks to C-SPAN’s “American History TV” series. In...
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Professors as mentors — a Baylor tradition since 1845
In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, the official Baylor Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts each asked the same question: “Which Baylor professor(s) made an impact in your life?” The...
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Get to know Dr. Charles Weaver, Baylor Master Teacher
Earning the designation as a Master Teacher is a rare honor — one of the highest a Baylor professor can receive. In March, President Linda Livingstone announced that three Baylor professors have...
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A tale of two Baylor EMBA grads: Different stories, same dream
Post-grad degrees are not for the faint of heart. They require hard work, discipline, and late nights; Baylor’s Executive MBA program is no exception. While some pursue their MBA straight out of...
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Congratulations, Baylor Class of 2020!
Congratulations, Class of 2020 — you did it. No class in Baylor’s 175-year history has had a senior year quite like yours, and certainly not a Senior Week or graduation weekend like yours. But while...
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USDA expands Baylor program for feeding rural schoolkids to provide 5 million...
It was barely a month ago that we wrote about how a Baylor program — picked up and supported by the USDA, PepsiCo, McLane Global and others — had quickly ramped up to provide a million meals a week to...
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Baylor professors of the year represent religion, business, English &...
Another academic year has come to an end. However strange it was, some things are still familiar: Final grades have been posted, books are being returned, students have graduated — and Baylor’s...
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13 Baylor Bears earn prestigious global scholarships
Fulbright and Goldwater are two of the more prestigious names in higher education, thanks to the incredibly competitive scholarship awards that bear their names. It’s become commonplace for Baylor to...
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Meet Baylor’s expert on the prevention of substance-exposed pregnancies
Babies develop both physically and mentally while in utero — so it likely comes as no surprise that the use of drugs and alcohol by a mother during pregnancy can negatively impact the child, often...
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As Christians, how should we address issues of race and injustice?
Earlier this month, President Livingstone announced a series of action steps that Baylor would take to “elevate the difficult, uncomfortable but important conversations … regarding race, privilege,...
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Meet Baylor’s nationally respected expert on Black composers
Names like Ulysses Kay, Florence Price and William Grant Still aren’t as widely recognized today as they were in their time, but their impact on American music runs deep. They are just three examples...
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Celebrating 50 years of the Baylor Institute of Oral History
History is recorded in a variety of ways, but none are as dynamic as the art of oral history — and Baylor has its very own collection! For 50 years now, the Baylor Institute for Oral History has...
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Baylor profs earn school-record 4 NSF CAREER awards
For young faculty members at research institutions across the nation, the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is an aspirational goal that only a handful attain each year. Along...
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Waco Mammoth National Monument celebrates 5 years as part of the National...
Over 40 years ago, Paul Barron and Eddie Bufkin set out to collect arrowheads and fossils near the Bosque River. To their surprise, they found something much larger — what is today known as the Waco...
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How a world-class violinist found her way to teaching at Baylor
At the age of 14, a prodigious violinist was given the chance to study with a preeminent violin instructor. He described her as “one of the greatest talents that I have ever taught,” and she went on...
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$2 million grant brings Baylor alumna back to BU for cancer research
As a Baylor student, Liela Romero, BS ’11, pursued her childhood dream of becoming a cancer researcher. She jumped at the chance to work in Dr. Kevin Pinney’s cancer research lab as an undergraduate,...
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A Baylor senior’s summer on a Texas COVID-19 response team
Countless Baylor Bears have spent the last few months on the front lines of COVID-19 — serving as doctors and nurses, researching vaccines, and more. Baylor senior Shiva Dhiman is one such Bear....
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Baylor profs leading national & international academic journals
No matter your relationship to higher education, there’s a good chance you’re aware of the importance of professors getting published. To be published means a professor’s research appears in a...
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30 years after leaving Romania, this couple has found a home in Baylor’s math...
It’s been 30 years since Dorina and Marius Mitrea made the life-changing decision to leave everything behind in Romania and come to the United States to pursue careers in higher education. Their...
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